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CAA/CSBG FUNDED AGENCIES ARE IN SERIOUS JEOPARDY! THERE ARE PROPOSED MAJOR CUTS TO COMMUNITY SERVICE BLOCK GRANT (CSBG) FUNDING.
The Administration and Congress are proposing devastating cuts and changes to the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG), the central source of funding for Community Action Agencies in the United States. These cuts will dismantle the Community Action Network that millions of citizens rely on. Anti-poverty agencies nationwide will be hit hard if these changes go through. More important, critical services for low-income families will be lost.
PLANNING YOUR COMMUNICATIONS
nCAP Media Presentations - 1) Lessons Learned from Statewide Media Campaigns 2) Planning Your Communications
PSAs - 30 second spot & 5 minute spot - check back for posting or contact lynn@cal-neva.org
Fulfilling The Promise Videos - fulfillingthepromise-us.org
> Contact your local media
Write an Opinion/Editorial. Let your local community know how CSBG cuts will affect those we serve.
> Meet with your legislative members or their representatives
> Write letters, make phone calls and send emails to the President and your federal elected officials. Encourage them to maintain CSBG funding at NO LESS than the $680 million contained in the enacted FY2011 Continuing Resolution. It is especially important for Community Leaders (business owners/executives, local officials, religious community, veterans affairs) to be part of the message.
> David Bradley, NCAF Get the latest information from Washington DC - NCAF and Bradley's Brushback
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Community Partner Letter Sample
Elected Official Letter Template 1
Elected Official Letter Template 2
SAMPLE LETTER - 1
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SAMPLE LETTER - 3
"FIGHTING THE WAR THAT NEVER ENDS"
National Journal Daily - Wednesday February 16
Interview with Don Mathis, nCAP
INTERVIEW WITH DON MATHIS, nCAP
Don Mathis, President and CEO of the national Community Action Partnership, appeared
on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal on February 9 discussing the proposed cuts to the
Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) and the positive impact Community
Action has on local communities.
FULFILLING THE PROMISE EDUCATION AND OUTREACH PROJECT
fulfillingthepromise-us.org
The “Fulfilling the Promise” Education and Outreach Project (EOP) is a statewide collaborative between the state CAA association California/Nevada Community Action Partnership (Cal/Neva), the state CSBG office California Community Services Department (CSD), and local Community Action Agencies throughout the State. The project is supported in-part through a grant from the federal Office of Community Services.
This project provides training and technical assistance that uses a multifaceted approach that will build capacity within the network to utilize media related tools and resources by telling the story of community action implementation of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funded projects.
Our goal is to tell the story of community action ARRA funded programs and raise awareness of the impact of community action ARRA projects with prospective consumers of services, the private sector and the public sector.
National Spotlights Fulfilling The Promise Education and Outreach Project
EITC & ASSET DEVELOPMENT
Harnessing Tax Credits for California Working Families
Last September 2010, we were honored to have former First Lady of California Maria Shriver welcome symposium attendees!
Tim F. Reese , Cal/Neva Executive Director and Maria Shriver, former CA First Lady
War on Poverty: From the Great Society to the Great Depression
When Lyndon B. Johnson became president after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, he put the power of his presidency behind a remarkable series of reform initiatives. The legislation was geared toward boosting economic opportunity, a theme captured by his administration’s catchphrase, the Great Society. "This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America," he said during his 1964 State of the Union address. But the political drive to eradicate poverty soon faltered on a number of fronts, undone by doubts about the effectiveness of anti-poverty programs and the escalating costs of the Vietnam War.
Many initiatives launched more than four decades ago are still in place today. Yet from the heady optimism of the Great Society to the trauma of the Great Recession questions remain about what government should do to help people who are poor. And poverty remains an abiding problem in America. Nearly 40 million Americans or 13.2 percent of the population live in poverty. The poverty rate for children is even higher. And most experts expect poverty rates will go up due to the economic trauma of the Great Recession.
Click here to download a radio broadcast or transcript about the War on Poverty, featuring David Bradley, Executive Director of the National Community Action Foundation (NCAF).
Honoring Sargent Shriver 1915-2011
